August and Back to School Writing Prompts

Creative Writing Ideas and Journal TopicsFor August and Back To School

Back To School and August Writing Prompts: Are you looking for a creative list of writing prompts and journal ideas to use during the month of August?

Below, you will find a list of general back to school writing prompts and a list of specific calendar dates for August which contain creative writing ideas related to that particular date in August.

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August and Back To School Writing Prompts

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First Monday of August - Friendship Day

Friendship Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August. The tradition of dedicating a day in honor of friends began in the United States in 1935 when Congress proclaimed the first Sunday of August as National Friendship Day.

In 1997, the United Nations named Winnie the Pooh as the world's Ambassador of Friendship.

1.

Write a recipe for friendship explaining how to be a good friend. Include the ingredients of friendship and the recipe for being a good friend.

2.

Who was your first best friend? Describe this friend and what made this friend so special.

3.

Write these quotes about friendship on the board and have your students respond to them:

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked

True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient, it's about being there when it's not.

August 25 - National Park Service Created (1916)

The National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916 by an Act of Congress and signed by President Woodrow Wilson. The National Park Service manages all the national parks and many national monuments in the United States.

The first national park was Yellowstone National Park and it was established by an Act signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.

The National Park System includes: national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, historical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails, and the White House.

1.

Why do you think it is important to have national parks?

2.

Have you ever visited a national park? Write about a national park that you have visited or a famous national park that you would like to visit.

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August 26 - Mother Teresa's Birthday

Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Serbi. Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who dedicated her life to humanitarian causes and she brought global awareness to the poverty in India. In India, Mother Teresa devoted herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work for the poor and helpless. At the time of her death in 1997, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity operated 610 missions in 123 countries which included hospices and homes for orphans, HIV/AIDS patients, and people with leprosy.

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Mother Teresa dedicated her life to helping the poor. What are some of the things that you could do to help the poor in your own community and in other countries around the world?

2.

Write these two quotes from Mother Teresa on your board and have your students write what they feel each quote means.

Peace begins with a smile.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.